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Want Quotes by Steven Pinker
- Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects the way you…
- Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other guy needs and…
- Evolutionary psychologists seem to want to unmask our noblest motives as ultimately self-interested - to show that our love for children, compassion for the unfortunate…
- However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they…
- Plants can't very well defend themselves by their behavior, so they resort to chemical warfare, and plants are saturated with toxins and irritants to deter…
- Words let us say the things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. They let us know…
- The idea that boys want to sleep with their mothers strikes most men as the silliest thing they have ever heard. Obviously, it did not…
- The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are authorities on what those wants and needs are. If…
- The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs, at…
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